Playing with trying to recreate a color classic look, courtesy of Lightroom 6 and Nik Collection’s Analog Efex Pro 2. I was sitting in traffic at a stoplight and looked out my window to see this bedding. I grabbed the E-M1.2 I’ve been carrying with me in the car and grabbed about six shots before the light turned green. This one satisfied me so I ran it through the effects filter. What makes it a bit odd is that I cropped it 16:9 in Lightroom. Old film wasn’t 16:9, at least none that I ever knew about. 16:9 is a bit more cinematic.
Same type of opportunity, except this time I was across from Universal Studios Orlando. Don’t ask me what I saw in this, except it struck a chord of the types of photos my parents and family members took on a trip to Florida back before I was four. We all traveled down to Miami. I still have fragments of memories from that trip. I didn’t travel back to Florida until right before I was married in the 1980s.
This of the rose I left alone. On my monitor it has a velvety quality, perhaps due to the monitor physics. It’s blooming in my garden. This little bloom heralds a much greater number of roses to come. I left it the way it essentially came out of the camera (I cropped it to a square).
All three taken with the E-M1.2 and 40-150mm PRO combination.
Radarwitch
Always remember that some of what we now think of as “the classic look of film” at the time was considered failing of its ability to get colours or exposure right and a tendency to be soft and grainy because that was how it was.
As such, you can’t really do this wrong. :)
And I like the palm trees.
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Thanks. So you like the palm trees, do you? I’d ship a few to you, except I don’t think they’d do too well in your part of the world.
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Whenever I see some of the very best colour film photos in places like the Tate Modern, I see exposures that started with either a medium or large format rectangle and the colours can be superb and lifelike. Of course, I’m talking photos taken in the 80s and 90s when the film/colour science was at its most advanced. Digital can give us this on the smaller format and here Olympus does very well. Natural JPEG, with a few tweaks in Photoshop, often works for me.
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For some reason the coloring of the picture of palm trees makes me think of the colorized “Gilligan’s Island” episodes.
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